Great work lft! Having worked six years with digital video and working regularly with AVRs, I perfectly understand all the trouble you went through to create your stunning demo. I am really glad you won the compo 'cause you deserved it. It's amazing how you stuffed sync generation, module player and all those data in just 8k plus E2PROM. Not to speak about using just 1k RAM for your framebuffer... Really awesome. Congrats!

Yeah! Real demoscene spirit, first build your own hardware, then do a demo on it!
Much respect for the work it must have been to fit the code in and keeping the gfx/sfx generatin code going while also doing some interesting effects.
If only I was any good with that hardware stuff (soldering etc.) I would totally build one, I can't imagine the parts costing all that much (in fact, it might be one of the cheapest demo platforms ever!)

I was impressed by this release, because at work I'm currently coding on ATmega88. It has very limited resources and no hardware for video and audio except some timers. I wonder if I can get the schematic somewhere, because otherwise the firmware.hex is of no use ;-)

I dont think it has a frame buffer at all but rerenders the whole thing each refresh.

I once built a remote controlled car controller with this device. Despite the limited resources, you have an absolutely predictable and simple environment. So you have cycle accurate timings which allows you to go to the limits.

just awesome. and indeed, possibly the best chiptune i've ever heard in a compo; it doesn't suck!

btw, could anyone post some more relevant specs about the hardware, the sound component, etcetera? i have very limited hardware hacking knowledge but to know that atmels come in all shapes and sizes - and speeds.

I built a copy of the demo platform last night, just so I could watch it on the native platform. Just awesome!
I've been toying with this idea for a while, but I never imagined something of this magnitude in my wildest dreams.

This one got everything! It has cool effects, it has one of the very best sound tracks of its kind, it's on a really limited and nerdy device and even some rebuild the hardware to see it "live" and talk about it. Short - it is the very embodiment of nearly everything I associate with the scene. And hey ... 3 day's after watching it on BP2009 again I still can't get the tune out of my head :D